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Originally Posted by Olde Crone
I also wonder if the researcher made the same mistake as me and assumed Palmerston was the one in New Zealand
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Easy mistake to make, if you were not aware that Darwin in the Northern Territory was originally called Palmerston. Plenty of Australians don't know that.
The land now occupied by the Northern Territory was part of colonial NSW from 1825 to 1863, except for a brief time from February to December 1846, when it was part of the short-lived colony of North Australia. The Northern Territory was part of South Australia from 1863 to 1911, then became the Territory we have today.
Consequently, the records relating to the area could be in any one of a number of archives.
It is possible the biographer was unaware that Reginald and Thomas headed into Western Australia..... we become invisible to folk in the Eastern States, even today
